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grindslop is by no means a new or in any way an interesting phenomena, it's your plain vanilla signalling/graeber bs jobs/monkey see monkey do kind of mix great essay though

100s of thousands of little girls lives a tragedy unfolding over decades this is unbelievable and still reads like some twisted plot of a horror movie, how is this not the main story for every major british news outlet? what am i getting wrong here? karl popper was right

I have now read the Rape Gang Inquiry Report in full. I've been following this story quite closely for something like a decade so I'm not exactly surprised by its contents, but three elements stand out to me amongst the horror. The first is that a large majority of the victims who provided testimony describe some kind of troubled or disrupted home life. Some were molested by family members before the rape gangs ever got ahold of them. Others faced physical abuse, neglect, drug addicted parents, housing instability, and so on. Their testimony often describes a kind of "screening" process where a girl's particular vulnerability was evaluated with more moderate boundary pushing before escalation to full on rape and abuse. This isn't necessarily surprising given the nefarious intentions the gangs had for these girls, but their willingness to explicitly target the absolute most vulnerable children who were already struggling sickens me. These girls, more than anyone, needed some kind of adult guidance in their lives, and this vulnerability was cynically exploited to initiate them into an even more egregious Hell. Which brings me to the second detail, which is the extreme violence these girls were subjected to. "Grooming Gang" is an unacceptable euphemism that may accurately describe common initiatory tactics employed against these girls, but which criminally downplays the behavior of their abusers once initiated. These girls were not "merely" groomed into sex. They were not "merely" raped. They were not "merely" trafficked. They were subjected to a program of overtly racialized sexual torture and humiliation designed to maximally degrade them and kill them in their souls. And this was "acceptable" because they were White and not Muslims. This detail fundamentally alters the character of these crimes. This was not horny men out of control or even cross-cultural understanding gaps around the age of consent. This was a targeted program of ritualized torture and subjugation as a means of ethnic domination. In other words, these gangs are conducting war against the White British using serial child rape and torture as a form of conquest. These are not crimes in the conventional sense. These are war crimes being conducted by one civilization against another, and they need to be treated as such. And finally, the third point (encapsulated in the excerpt below) is that every single level of the state utterly failed these girls in the most egregious and unfathomable ways imaginable. It's one thing when you have no physical evidence and are confronted with a "he said / she said" situation with respect to a rape allegation. It's another thing entirely when you have a pre-teen frequent flier at the NHS back again for her Nth sexually transmitted disease treatment, a 13 year old with broken glass shards embedded in her vagina, or a pregnant 13 year old. These are cases with obvious alarming physical evidence that no one addressed in any meaningful way. Politicians (Labour in particular) covered it up and suppressed action into investigations in order to maintain the Islamic bloc vote. Police suppressed investigations, dismissed accusations and evidence, intimidated victims into silence, arrested victims for the crimes of their abusers, dismissed proven cases of rape with impotent warning letters, and in some cases directly raped the girls themselves. Care homes disregarded obvious signs of abuse (including outright confessions), and enabled their abusers to maintain consistent access to the girls, in some cases acting more like pimps than caregivers. Social workers addressed victims' needs so incompetently they recommended victims audition for a TV show role about being a child prostitute because it was "relatable" and even attended a victim's coerced sham marriage to her abuser. NHS staff consistently failed to do anything in the face of overt medical evidence of obvious, undeniable sex crimes against these girls, treating the acute problem and sending them on their way with no protection whatsoever. And teachers, much like the social workers, routinely delivered their students into the predatory arms of their abusers as they waited outside the schools, and utterly failed to appropriately address signs or confessions of abuse. Virtually every arm of the state is directly complicit in exacerbating the abuse. Not one single institution at any level reliably offered protection or recourse to these girls. As far as I am concerned I Restore government would be entirely justified in firing every single person in the employ of the state. If they are not a documented whistleblower they are complicit and thus compromised, and none of them have any business retaining their roles or their pensions. On the contrary large numbers of state officials deserve severe penalties for criminal negligence or outright complicity in these crimes. Justice for these crimes will necessarily take place at a scale that will shock the pacified sensibilities of the over-socialized Liberal West, but nothing short of a biblical level reckoning will be sufficient to qualify as justice in this case. @RupertLowe10 is not wrong to draw comparisons to the Holocaust. It is the only appropriate frame of reference in the popular zeitgeist that articulates the actual magnitude of what was allowed to take place under successive British governments. Nor is he wrong to propose the reinstatement of the death penalty as the appropriate restitution for these crimes. The rapists and state officials who enabled this atrocity both deserve to hang. And I pray that the British public will entrust Rupert with the power to deliver justice long overdo. In any case I am deeply appreciative of his efforts to bring this to light. He is the hero Britain needs right now. Vote Restore. Deliver these girls justice.

@reallynattu notion founders think they know better what you need, jobs style, slack is run by pms

Telegram has full Markdown preview support. Notion and Slack still can’t reliably render a pasted Markdown doc as a preview. Make it make sense.

how long until we get the distilled mythos?

@pmarca hari seldon already proved it can be done, just need to ace psychohistory

Some people are a thousand times better at furiously improvising than other people. Some are a million times better.

this is the problem AI solves it's $8,000 to get in to the world cup final match but for less than $7,000 in tokens, i can ask Claude Fable 5 to simulate 15,000 world cup matches and build me a 3D simulation of each one, that i can watch from the comfort of my own home, or at a bar if i ask the bartender nicely to let me plug my laptop in to the TV that leaves me an extra $1,000 to spend on whatever i want, like food or a movie or going to a football match explain to me how FIFA is supposed to survive the tidal wave of AI disruption again?

this is exactly how i imagine the ceo of ga to look like and post

@iamgingertrash high p for him to be a space sovereign, its impossible for any country or politician to launch a project of that scale - instant political suicide

Out of the three IPOs It’s just SpaceX with fundamental value The only one that can capture its TAM Elons Crown Jewel

slack was bad, but its getting worse and worse due to endless ai slop, as they say you got to fight fire with fire, schedule your automatic notification with claude cowork, at least as long as the subsidies last it's worth it

what did i miss? disclosure day for negative fundraising experience?

@gregisenberg this is like the most usual experience of pitching a vc, if you are a startup founder you will experience some form of this bullshit

I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A. 12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30+ minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going. I kept presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair and somehow that was considered normal. That's venture capital. You might fly across the country to perform for people who may or may not be conscious. It's a dance. And sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow and sometimes your partner is unconscious. If you're raising right now, just know: every founder has a story like this. The process is weird. The power dynamic is weird. You're not crazy for thinking it's weird. No one talks about it because they want to continue raising. But I'm happy to stick my neck out there. It is weird.

if you are a founder and went through this, know, it happens to some vcs too

necromodernism 💀 if you thought postmodernism was annoying, wait until we reach full sloppification that meme with the bonfire and brief moment in time is gonna hit hard

for the optimist to make money, they need to survive markets going down after they went up also in the true sv fashion the third option is that markets are irrelevant in a post singularity world, but that one is reserved for the true believers

@f_j_j_ @SHL0MS life imitates art, at its finest

stared at this tryin to figure out if it was AI longer than at the @SHL0MS Monet

"If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a horse powered by an LLM"

yes, netflix monopolised streaming content and is a shit farm at this point but we also have dune 3 coming there are still things to be grateful for

@karrisaarinen @thdxr until someone comes and takes the idea of side quests seriously.. vertically integrates them in a company... etc comparative advantage is not binary or linear but its playing on hard mode, so most players choose to be distracted from main quest instead

yeah it is but everything in moderation. Internally we always talked about main quest and side quests. Everyone should focus on the main quest, and moderately or not all on side quests. Both quest lines feel productive but only one of them advances the main mission of the company.

sent this to the team today everything great comes from being able to delay gratification for as long as possible and it feels like we're collectively losing our ability to do that

it's surprisingly difficult nowadays to make apple accept your $ and give you anything meaningful for it in less than 30 days